{"id":27082,"date":"2012-10-17T23:58:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T03:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=27082"},"modified":"2012-10-17T23:58:45","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T03:58:45","slug":"christie-still-trying-to-appease-numbers-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/10\/christie-still-trying-to-appease-numbers-kings","title":{"rendered":"Christie Still Trying to Appease Numbers Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_27084\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27084\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27084\" title=\"perry-christie\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/perry-christie1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/perry-christie1.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/perry-christie1-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27084\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perry Christie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Prime Minister Perry Christie is still optimistic that the referendum on gambling will take place this year, however he said the final report from the government&#8217;s United Kingdom (UK) advisers will ultimately determine when the highly-anticipated vote will take place.<\/p>\n<p>Christie told reporters last week that the advisers expressed worries that a national lottery catering to a small country like The Bahamas might not be as attractive as larger games of chance with higher cash prizes in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>He said there has to be a determination of whether the game of chance would be a lottery of 300,000 Bahamians, the five million visitors that come to The Bahamas, or if it\u2019s on the Internet, whether there is anything to prevent people in Florida from being a part of the lottery that would take away from Bahamian winnings.<\/p>\n<p>At the time the prime minister said the consultants also spoke of the \u201curgent\u201d need to regulate web shops due to the large sums of money passing through the establishments unchecked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final report from the government&#8217;s United Kingdom advisers will ultimately determine when the national lottery referendum will take place, which Christie hopes can still happen this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[137,307],"class_list":["post-27082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-gambling","tag-illegal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}